That in every thing ye are enriched by him, in all utterance, and in all knowledge;
Parallel translations
- WEB that in everything you were enriched in him, in all speech and all knowledge;
- BSB For in Him you have been enriched in every way, in all speech and all knowledge,
- NKJV that you were enriched in everything by Him in all utterance and all knowledge,
- NASB that in everything you were enriched in Him, in all speech and all knowledge,
- NLT Through him, God has enriched your church in every way—with all of your eloquent words and all of your knowledge.
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Quick answer
Paul notes they were enriched in Christ in all speech and knowledge. God had abundantly gifted this church.
Overview
The Corinthians were not lacking in spiritual endowments; they overflowed in 'speech and all knowledge,' the very gifts they later misused for pride and division. Paul acknowledges God as the giver of these riches, setting up his later teaching that gifts are for service, not boasting. True enrichment is 'in him,' Christ being the source of all spiritual wealth.
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- 2 Cor 9:11Being enriched in every thing to all bountifulness, which causeth through us thanksgiving to God.
- 2 Cor 8:7Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.
- Col 2:3In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.
- Phil 1:9And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;
- Rom 15:14And I myself also am persuaded of you, my brethren, that ye also are full of goodness, filled with all knowledge, able also to admonish one another.
- Jas 3:13Who is a wise man and endued with knowledge among you? let him shew out of a good conversation his works with meekness of wisdom.
- 1 Cor 12:8For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;
- 2 Pet 3:18But grow in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To him be glory both now and for ever. Amen.
- Eph 6:19And for me, that utterance may be given unto me, that I may open my mouth boldly, to make known the mystery of the gospel,
- Eph 1:17That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you the spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him:
- Col 3:10And have put on the new man, which is renewed in knowledge after the image of him that created him:
- Eph 3:8Unto me, who am less than the least of all saints, is this grace given, that I should preach among the Gentiles the unsearchable riches of Christ;
- 1 Cor 13:2And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries, and all knowledge; and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
- Eph 2:7That in the ages to come he might shew the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Christ Jesus.
- Rom 11:12Now if the fall of them be the riches of the world, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?
- Col 1:9–10For this cause we also, since the day we heard it, do not cease to pray for you, and to desire that ye might be filled with the knowledge of his will in all wisdom and spiritual understanding;
- 1 Cor 8:11And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?
- 1 Cor 14:26How is it then, brethren? when ye come together, every one of you hath a psalm, hath a doctrine, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.
- 2 Cor 4:6For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.
- Acts 2:4And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
- 1 Cor 13:8Charity never faileth: but whether there be prophecies, they shall fail; whether there be tongues, they shall cease; whether there be knowledge, it shall vanish away.
- 1 Cor 14:5–6I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.
- Rom 15:4For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.
- 1 Cor 12:10To another the working of miracles; to another prophecy; to another discerning of spirits; to another divers kinds of tongues; to another the interpretation of tongues:
- 1 Cor 4:7–10For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?
- Col 4:3–4Withal praying also for us, that God would open unto us a door of utterance, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds:
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